Refugee families have been left homeless after Greek police raided and evicted a squat in Athens. (file image)
a pair of squatted buildings in the capital’s Exarchia neighborhood, leaving dozens of people -among them refugee families- homeless.
Across Athens, thousands of refugees and migrants live in squatted buildings, often preferring the living conditions to the refugee camps, many of which are overcrowded and sit far from the city centre. He rushed to the squat and pulled out his phone to film the eviction. A police officer shouted in his direction, demanding that he put away his phone. “They didn’t want anyone to see what they were doing,” he told TRT World, estimating that the spate of raids resulted in the eviction of between 200 and 300 refugees and migrants.
Speaking to local press at the time, police sources said the raids were part of a crackdown on crime and drug dealing in the neighbourhood, citing aMany of the refugees ousted by the April 18 raids “There are more homeless people and refugees now,” he explained. “When we first started I didn’t see families or single women, but now every day we have full families and pregnant women and parents with little babies.”
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